Trends in the design of wavelength-based optical fibre biosensors (2008–2018)

During the last decades, both governments and companies have been committed to the continuous checking of biological parameters, which can prevent extra costs to administrations. A very efficient way to address this issue is by designing biosensors. This contribution reviews the advances made using...

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Autores: Socorro Leránoz, Abián Bentor, Santano Rivero, Desiree, Del Villar, Ignacio, Matías Maestro, Ignacio
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2019
País:España
Recursos:Universidad Pública de Navarra
Repositório:Academica-e. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Pública de Navarra
OAI Identifier:oai:academica-e.unavarra.es:2454/36252
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/2454/36252
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Optical fibre
Interferometry
Fabry–Pérot
Fibre Bragg gratings
Long-period fibre Bragg gratings
Surface plasmon resonance
Localized surface plasmon resonance
Lossy mode resonance
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Resumo:During the last decades, both governments and companies have been committed to the continuous checking of biological parameters, which can prevent extra costs to administrations. A very efficient way to address this issue is by designing biosensors. This contribution reviews the advances made using optical fibre technology, which have lately agglutinated much of the scientific interest related to the development of biosensors. However, the wide number of publications describing the use of optical fibre for detecting biomarkers has probably blurred the main goal: obtaining portable, simple, easy-to-handle and cost-effective biosensors. With this purpose, this contribution presents some optical fibre structures which have been analysed in terms of several optical parameters of interest from a photonics point of view: sensitivity, quality factor, full width at half minimum, limit of detection and figure of merit. This has made it possible to classify the most advanced optical fibre sensing techniques and, hence, their suitability when developing biosensing applications.